The Worst Tweets of 2015
As selected by the staff of Gawker. These tweets are terrible, man.
Today will be the last day we at ACN will refer to it as same-sex marriage. Starting tomorrow, it is just marriage, as it is under the law.
— Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) June 26, 2015
Y'all might want to slow your roll on @sfj. You know who was another master of annotation? DFW.
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) January 12, 2015
Since @tomwatson and I launched #HillaryMen, we've been attacked relentlessly by white males on the right (and left) for our strong advocacy
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) November 11, 2015
CSPAN screen encouraging Democrats to call one phone number and Republicans to call another to react to this hearing is....telling
— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) October 22, 2015
The ongoing veneration of scientific peer review is really questionable. https://t.co/W6xaBR5Gn5 https://t.co/yL1lNUEWa8
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 20, 2015
Any industry that still has unions has potential energy that could be released by startups.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) November 8, 2015
there are a bunch of people in my high school's Wikipedia "alumni" section who are way less notable than I am imo
— pareene (@pareene) May 24, 2015
.@whispersystems I am getting full-text messages with phone # of sender showing up as notifications on a locked screen
— John Cook (@johnjcook) June 22, 2015
Attempts to discredit Beyoncé's feminism strike me as the worst kind of internecine bullshit.
— Erik Hinton (@erikhinton) December 11, 2015
White people would sooner allow a Daily Show ratings boost under President Trump then prevent a President Trump
— Ayesha A. Siddiqi (@pushinghoops) December 7, 2015
do you ever think about your maternal ancestors and how big their dreams were compared to their abilities to achieve them and cry or just me
— #rachelsyme (@rachsyme) December 2, 2015
Yo @WeWorkSF, if you want to do right & be more competitive, get the sketchy Tenderloin spot a guard to walk users to nearby BART/Muni stops
— Josh Constine (@JoshConstine) December 2, 2015
Mark Zuckerberg made me believe in good things again tonight. Thank you.
— Taffy Akner (@taffyakner) December 1, 2015
Me looking @ mentions rn in the @ReadMatter office pic.twitter.com/nXwUMJC0Q6
— #rachelsyme (@rachsyme) November 19, 2015
started crying reading your selfie stories; you all really know how to make a girl turnt for waterworkz
— #rachelsyme (@rachsyme) November 17, 2015
My Hotline Bling holiday sweater showed up at @maximmag and this is the best day of my life pic.twitter.com/b9uu7y5keI
— Jared Keller (@jaredbkeller) November 13, 2015
Also, desperately want to know what S-Dot's Chinese order is. Does Serena get down on Mu Shu? Puu-Puu? Kung Pao? THE PEOPLE/I WANT ANSWERS.
— Foster Kamer (@weareyourfek) November 5, 2015
still unclear if those sexts in colorado being ranked were collected consensually. telling that even reporters didnt care to clear that up
— nathanjurgenson (@nathanjurgenson) December 16, 2015
Wow! 21st Century Fox is @21stCenturyF0X (with a zero) on Twitter, presumably because @21stCenturyFox was already taken.
— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) November 3, 2015
this is such an important corrective to my moppet-like enthusiasm "just do it, it'll be fine" @Nicole_Cliffe
— Mallory Ortberg (@mallelis) November 2, 2015
The #Hamilton slack at BF is freaking out right now.
— Cates Holderness (@catesish) October 27, 2015
buzzfeed's hamilton slack room really is the greatest place on earth
— Tracy Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) October 27, 2015
When the BuzzFeed #Hamilton slack room has a heated debate about which Hogwarts houses the characters belong to pic.twitter.com/xUtdCl0PvE
— Arielle Calderon (@Arielle07) November 4, 2015
hi @Lin_Manuel, you should know that at @BuzzFeed we have a hamilton slack room, kay bye pic.twitter.com/225qwzaMP9
— Tracy Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) October 15, 2015
The BuzzFeed Hamilton slack room is my happy place.
— Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) October 29, 2015
The BuzzFeed #Hamilton slack rn: pic.twitter.com/HRcB1xYCFf
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) November 12, 2015
the most remarkable thing about the Bieber video is the complete absence of male gaze
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) October 23, 2015
Stand by for a breakdown of new CNBC debate criteria …
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) October 16, 2015
publishing a woman's beauty regimen without her permission is an act of violence kinda http://t.co/aiMp3RSgHg
— #rachelsyme (@rachsyme) April 20, 2015
I should get a free ipad pro
— roxane gay (@rgay) October 8, 2015
I belong on campus. It's the only place where I really feel comfortable, where things make sense.
— Fredrik deBoer (@freddiedeboer) September 18, 2015
when my book drops it's going to be a pop culture event we shutting down Barnes & Noble nationwide fuck everybody
— ernest baker (@ernestbaker) September 16, 2015
Was there a cool early N Minaj video where she played a ton of different characters and was a dominatrix, among other things?
— emily nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) August 31, 2015
Having kind of a melancholy moment going back and unfollowing Arab Spring Twitter accounts that have gone dormant.
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) August 28, 2015
what’s your favorite piece on this summer of T-Swift?
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) August 17, 2015
Really impressed by the transparency @peretti is throwing down right now at @BuzzFeed.
— Isaac Fitzgerald (@IsaacFitzgerald) August 13, 2015
Increasingly convinced @realDonaldTrump is a @thereaIbanksy creation. #levels #staywoke
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 30, 2015
So many feels https://t.co/R2Zp5J37sf
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) June 26, 2015
not cool to be a scold about this but typos on news websites are out of control. just read a 900-word blog post w/ 10 typos. it erodes trust
— Leon Neyfakh (@leoncrawl) May 30, 2015
Remember: In addition to tonight's @darth-fest, the red panda also brought perfect levity to #SCOTUS day w/ what is now my profile pic. ❤️
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) June 23, 2015
today in weird googles: “Shabba Ranks”
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) June 23, 2015
i started an argument with @tanehisicoates today & it ended in détente (does that mean i won????)
— bijan (@bijanstephen) June 23, 2015
did it ever occur to anyone that i wear the thing as a studied reminder that i do not want to ever fit in or be a fucking suit
— nilay patel (@reckless) April 12, 2015
I have not met her IRL but I spend a significant portion of my day being proud of Demi Lovato
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) May 28, 2015
CNN giving James Holmes the attention he shot up a theater for
— Anthony De Rosa (@AntDeRosa) May 28, 2015
i say it all the time but, Nicki releasing her line in KMART because "people who look up to me cant always afford $$$ shit" is miracle shit
— DVS (@DVSblast) January 24, 2015
By popular demand, ranking students of Leo Strauss: 1. Susan Sontag. 2. Richard Rorty. 3. Stanley Rosen 4. Seth Benardete 5. Allan Bloom
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) December 18, 2015
is there any kind of tech & VC investment that can stop mass shootings and violent extremism in US? discuss.
— Lora Kolodny (@lorakolodny) December 3, 2015
Cripster thugs running wild over the Internet playing "knockout" game and "flash mob" groupthink. #WhiteGangs
— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) October 7, 2015
.@jbouie The term "ideologue" was largely invented by Napoleon and Marx to do exactly the kind of thing you're trying to do to me.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) May 27, 2015
a coffee mystery I tried to unravel a couple years ago was why no one in the industry can or will touch baratza grinders for home
— matt (@mattbuchanan) December 16, 2015
Some things you won't see the media put out. BPD Officers socializing and playing w/children in community. @FOP3 pic.twitter.com/xk32afjZ5h
April 28, 2015
Illustration by Jim Cooke
